Edward Hirsch Quotes

I think that the child in me is ever dominant, but that doesn't make me less of a woman.

Everyones childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand.

The study of love and its utilization will lead us to the source from which it springs, The Child.

I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a searching adolescent, given to moods and ecstasies, these are still part of me, and always will be.

I am not my childhood,' Snowman says out loud.

As a child growing up, it's going to be what you're going to remember most. What you liked or not liked then is going to define who you are at the table!

Maybe I'm sort of like the players - there's still a lot of little boy in me.

I vividly remember my sixth-grade classroom. I remember what it smelled like, where I sat, what I could see out the window, and how I felt about things. Peel away my decrepit middle-aged exterior, and an important part of me is still twelve years old. It helps me when I sit down to write stories for kids.

A lot of people hurl themselves into relationships to lose themselves, but I think the best relationships help us to be more ourselves, to bring forth our best selves.

There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.

I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it's such an extraordinary part of our lives.

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

I feel like regardless of whether or not I win this award or I win that award or I don't win this award - I'm still Sam at the end of the day. And that's what defines me.

When I went to see certain shows when I was a kid, they changed my life. They made me tap into that place inside myself that I was unable to get to, so music is that tool, that bridge, and that's the kind of music I'm interested in making.

Geography does not define you - love does.

I haven't had a chance to decorate my dressing room yet, but I have these pictures of myself as a kid that I want to put up because I said, 'I really want to make sure that I take that kid with me on this journey.' I want him to experience this.

I think that 'Cry Baby' came from a nickname I was called as a kid.

I know I'm grown, but there's a part of me who will eternally be six years old.

When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

The toughest thing for me was growing up and being stared at and being looked at and being talked about in that particular way. Other than that it was a good childhood.

We can run away from where we are, but not from what we are.

For finally, we are as we love. It is love that measures our stature.

You can't grow if you're constantly defined by this collection of frozen moments that you keep returning to. And if you can't grow, you're not alive.

We are the same people as we were at three, six, ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so, perhaps, at six or seven, because we were not pretending so much then.